SANTA CRUZ — A 24-year-old Santa Cruz man under investigation for raping a woman in January turned himself into County Jail on Monday, police said.

The rape was reported on Jan. 29, and detectives built the case and Friday secured an arrest warrant for Estevan Abram Lopez, Deputy Police Chief Steve Clark said.

After police began searching for him “relentlessly,” Lopez turned himself in, Clark said. His bail was set at $500,000, jail records show.

The 21-year-old victim told police she met Lopez through a mutual friend the evening before the assault, went to sleep in a Santa Cruz home at the end of the evening and awoke some time later to find him assaulting her, he said.

When she confronted him, he forcefully continued the assault, Clark said.

Lopez has a significant criminal history, including narcotics, assault and other arrests, he said.

He is due in court Tuesday. He told jail officials he worked as a “cleaner.”

Violent police encounters in California last year led to the deaths of 157 people and six officers, the state attorney general’s office said Thursday in a report that provides the first statewide tally on police use-of-force incidents.